Spanish - Improver
This course is ideal for:
those who are confident with all aspects of the present tense and who have already come across the first two past tenses (perfecto compuesto and preterito) as well as the proper future tense but need more practice in these. This is what we will be doing in the first half of the unit (through some fun conversational topics) before adding a third past tense (the imperfecto) which will help you to add a bit more description to your anecdotes!y This course is for those who have got quite far with an online method or with another teacher and now want to be able to communicate about past events and future plans; it is also for those who did Spanish to a slightly higher level than this at school (GCSE/O Level higher paper or AS/A Level) but a long time ago and want to go back and start again from a manageable but still challenging starting point.
This course is also ideal for those who want the option of joining in with lessons in person most weeks and from a distance online on a couple of occasions if necessary.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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